Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-21

! brd, III stetson's travelling "Ruddygore' COM
! pany. she Is set down by the critics as easily
| The star ui the cast.
Joseph iiawofth is TO appear as q comedy star
next season, making tour of the country in
! ''R0ocdale.'
| - Col. McCaull Will concentrate his energies
| next season. Instead OF having three opera COM
! panleS on the ru.Id he VIII have only one.
| ~
| Other Worlds Than Ours.
why PLANETARY LIFE VARIES WITH THE SIZE OF
THg PLANET.
| RIchari A Proctor. i'll St LOUIS Globe Democrat
May we nOt-nay, rather, must We not-admit
| that among the planets within the solar system
varieties of actua. nature must exist: Is it ante
! eedently likely that the stages OF the life OF a
| giant planet ike Jupiter Will resemble in detail
| tlG@e oil a planet Ike our earth-hayiDg but
| l,340th OF that giants mass? And, on the other
hand, is it reasonably probable that the stages OF
our eaEth'S life viii resemble those OF the moon,
WGich she exceeds III mass more than eighty
times? The giant planet, the terrestrial planet
the small planet, may all three pass through the
same general stages of lite. Each may have its
| glowing vapOrOUs stage IT'S fiery stage its middle
lie, when clothed with air and water 1t is nit to be
I the abode OF living creatures. its old age and
I finally its stage OF decreptude and death: much
Us the elephant, the ham and the mouse may, the
land ANIMAL The bird the fish, the insect and the
Dl0i!uSk, }ne animal and the yegetabie> have each
their infancy their youth, their middle nfe their
old age and their death But precisely as the de-
tails "a the lie development OF elephant man and
iO'ls- are unlike. while those OF the nfe-deyelOp-
Inent Of other creatures differ still more so
I IL
emit class are altogether diS,imilar.
When this itic;. has ouce been suggested we Inn
nediateiy SEE that IL three important, one may
say VITAL features, the Stages of the life OF larger
planet must differ markedly from those of a small
one.
For it can be shown readily the smaller planet
Will haze shorter stages OF life smaller gravity
energy a. its surface les, water per SQUARE mile OF
surface. and In more marked degree less air
per square mile. Hence, since water and air are
the dcnudilg agents, and gravity the force which
works them in producing denudation, it follows
tAat with weaker tools. weaker hand holding
tAtin, and less tine In which to use them, The
smaller planet VIII accomplish far less denudatiOn
on rs own surface imam Inc larger. Applying this
Ia he moon, which has but One-Sxth the gravity
Oh tine earth. the moon would have had probably
about one-siXth OF the supply OF water and one
thirty-SlNth the supply Of air per square mile
while the stages OF life would have but one-siXth
the duration OF the corresponding stages OF the
e.r;hs lie. see that probably the work OF denu
dalton on The moon would be but about Is OOOth
part Of what has been done on the earth.
Hence We can understand how 1T is that ON the
moon the great craters ana ray systems extend
Ing many hundreds OF miles from them remain
which doubtless once existed on the surface OF the
! earth. but have long aince disappeared from it,
On th; moon the processes OF denudatiOn not
sufficiently active, and they did not last long
enough 10 remove these great yuicanian masses;
ON tie earth there was sufficient power and ample
time 20 remove all traces OF such features and we
! can IN Lac manner understand why the earth
great mountain ranges form much more striking
feature than on the moon Tor the materials OF the
older yulclnidn features OF the earth have been
( USED 10 make the great mountain masses. On the
moon the older VGlCaEidn masses have not been so
/ used; hence, naturally, there are but few great
mountain ranges and these not comparable with
/ tne chief mo Inisn MASSES OF the earth.
! Thus, finally, We can study our moons face not
Only 10 tell u az the probable future OF our earth
as :; dead world, but also To tell OF the past
seeing Oh The less worn lace Of our satellite the
/ features "hirh have long since disappeared from
Inc dendded 4lGiacc OF our Garth
! Village KumOr..
! SOME OF THE ODD SAYINGS AND SLIPS OF THE TONGUE
OF OCk ENGLISH COUSINS.
From the London Spectator
/ one of our ..prayer-!eaders' was describing bis
| f,;voritc preacher. 'Ah. said he, "there ,yoz a
hnfuente vi him! Just TO see him swee (sway,
/ ms masSy frame, quite aylUlabrium." Another
OF our local nights Once beSought Us to beware OF
'inundiii0no'- in religion. Sheer miSprouunci.
ton - answerabe for such errors as '.Slatchacrah
Ming o. AssyrIa, ard the 'Eeery 'unsn Il suppose
! y moro curious misunderstanding OF Scripture
once CONFUSED me with laughter. The pre!eher
gave o'it his text, rs follows: "Peace with all men
Lord AID proceeded TO divide his subjects into
tisrte b ae:s-.holiness without" ..hOiness with
/ H. add which No man." tGc.
Equdliy diverting, and more practical, was the
1oiiDWing nle Instance of unconscious wit told by
11e Ke': MI. b, Wesleyan minister of repute
I'VE have here, brethren sail the preacher san
instance OF The wonderful depth OF meaning there
is IA Scripture. We see how low this unprincipled
( young ln:ilyidual had fallen. when ne calu., TO
hlnloei -" What docs it mean? Well, look al
none non VIVA, 90 We do when our MONEYS gone
pa"nshop. So did he. First his coat would 90.
! lie might i've a week on that. Then his waist
coat Ihat wouldn't serve him long. Lastly, his
SAirt would follow, and then-ah then my friends
i NJ came TO himself. He couldn't pawn hiInseI
aHd 50 ne went home to his fathcr.r
! Here Il bit or conscious rustic wit which 7
Know 10 b. genuine John Man had been sent BY his
| shreWish wlle To market TO sell the pig On the
way ne got drunk, the pig strayed away and never
! again turned up. A few weeks afterw ard John
| was asked II he had 'heard anything OF the Mo
yct" Heard Of 'iiH:@ nc said "heard OF i'm?
va, ~, hears Oh i'm most days.
Betting ON iOrseS.
| NAN WHO KNEW LESS ABOUT TT THAN HIS WIPE
| me sporting reporterOf u weil-knOwn New York
weekly paper, writes Macon To the PHILADELPHIA
: e"s, was married TO 4 lady, who, notwithstand-
lag uer HldDy uideniabie virtues had the disagree
aple nauit vi possiDg her wor,.r half until she
Ihido .iis, al ulieS, - terror for him Sine knaey,
"nat fiS salary war, and she made him br1ny her
cseTJ penny oi u. One day friend put him In
sri n !" a. ., ia1uis so1ne extr, money, and me-
Mithoul V'litS ms wife anything about it. began
p9t1tns t"ts as much al IL Is ne did not sp.rd
III . nals, ana IN tse course or a year or eighteen
months ne hltf some 5lOO standing to his credit
u WIG, having inhibited some OF his sporting
| hno"ieuse ana tastes, occasionally tempted for.
tuhe y! investing III a small way in mutual pool